Three out of five people dream of writing a book. Few follow through. What does it take to take that from dream to reality? In this special preview we hear as John August (Go, Big Fish, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory) takes his dream and turns it into a reality. Will it be successful? You’ll find out when we do.

Winner of the 2014 Gival Press Fiction Award for her short novel Mayhem: Three Lives of a Woman, Elizabeth Harris is a native Texan who grew up in Ft. Worth. For her first book, she won the John Simmons Prize, awarded by University of Iowa Press, for The Ant Generator, a collection of stories praised for their “sense of wonder and comedy” and “acid-etched existentialism.”

The 217th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Glen Erik Hamilton, crime and suspense writer, and the author of Past Crimes, Hard Cold Winter, and Every Day Above Ground.

Glen Erik Hamilton’s debut Past Crimes won the Anthony, Macavity, and Strand Magazine Critics awards for Best First Novel, and was also nominated for the Edgar, Barry, and Nero awards.

The 214th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with best-selling writer Dean Koontz.

Koontz’s books are published in 38 languages and he has sold over 450 million copies to date. Fourteen of his novels have risen to number one on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list. Koontz’s latest novel THE SILENT CORNER is the first novel in his new series featuring the character Jane Hawk.

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